Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

Alicorn

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

July Part 1

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

July Part 1

So you've deleted the posts you've made in the past. This is harmful for the blog, disrupts the record and makes the comments by other people on those posts unavailable.

For example, consider these posts, and comments on them, that you deleted:

11 core rationalist skills (39 points, 33 comments, promoted)
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Morality and What To Do About It (23 points, 108 comments, promoted)
Supporting the underdog is explained by Hanson’s Near/Far distinction (20 points, 18 comments, promoted)
Max Tegmark on our place in history: "We're Not Insignificant After All" (14 points, 68 comments)

I believe it's against community blog ethics to delete posts in this manner. I'd like them restored.

Edit: Roko accepted this argument and said he's OK with restoring the posts under an anonymous username (if it's technically possible).

I don't really see what the fuss is. His articles and comments were mediocre at best.

24Blueberry16y

And I'd like the post of Roko's that got banned restored. If I were Roko I would be very angry about having my post deleted because of an infinitesimal far-fetched chance of an AI going wrong. I'm angry about it now and I didn't even write it. That's what was "harmful for the blog, disrupts the record and makes the comments by other people on those posts unavailable." That's what should be against the blog ethics. I don't blame him for removing all of his contributions after his post was treated like that.

8cousin_it16y

It's ironic that, from a timeless point of view, Roko has done well. Future copies of Roko on LessWrong will not receive the same treatment as this copy did, because this copy's actions constitute proof of what happens as a result. (This comment is part of my ongoing experiment to explain anything at all with timeless/acausal reasoning.)

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